Cookies are not separated among different private tabs

[bodqhrohro]

If I log in on some site on one private tab and then open a new private tab with this site (not by link from previous tab, just by typing private: before URL in new tab), I stay logged in on new tab too. So tabs are not fully private, they just provide a separate from non-private browsing session. This may be considered as a feature so I wish it would be optionally kept.

[Infocatcher]

So tabs are not fully private, they just provide a separate from non-private browsing session.

This is feature of built-in private browsing mechanism (that used for private tabs): built-in private windows also shares the same cookies and other things.

[Infocatcher]

Also you can try Multifox extension.

[ozsid]

@Infocatcher I love the private-tab extension, but I think it would be greatly improved if it created a new FF profile per tab by default. I often find myself closing all my private tabs just to get a fresh profile.

I'm just putting 2 ideas out there in case there are some takers:

• Multifox approach, where private-tabs emulate opening a new private window every-time (meaning a new FF profile at private-tab creation).
• A context-menu option to clean the private-tab profile

Ideally, the Multifox approach would allow creating sub-tabs under the same profile, with the title of tabs in different profiles underlined in a different colour for example.

@Infocatcher do you have any insight on how hard to implement these ideas are?